Kansas University Endowment Ass'n v. King

This suit as originally filed was an action in trespass to try title for the recovery of title to and possession of certain lots and blocks in the Collins Tract Addition to the City of Houston. Almost a century ago two persons, Baker and Tankersley, thought they owned a tract of land which contained 259 acres. They subdivided and partitioned the same on the basis of their construction of the field notes used in certain deeds, and in the years that followed different parts of the subdivision were conveyed by lot and block number. It now appears that the parties actually owned only 244 acres,…